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Sandburg, Carl (1878-1967)
A maverick son of Swedish immigrant parents, Carl Sandburg became one of America's best loved poets, as well as one of its most significant. However, he was also a jo...
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Biography EssayAmerican poet and biographer Carl Sandburg sketched a revealing portrait of himself in the preface to his Complete Poems (1950): "there was a puzzlement," he said, "as to whether I was...
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An American poet, anthologist, singer of folk songs and ballads, and biographer, Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) is best known for his magnificent biography of Abraham Lincoln and his early "realistic" vers...
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"Poetry," wrote Carl Sandburg in his Good Morning, America, "is a pack-sack of invisible keepsakes. Poetry is a sky dark with wild-duck migration. Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving ...
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The historical writings of Carl Sandburg were the most important twentieth-century factor in Abraham Lincoln's continuing popularity. Sandburg's massive Lincoln biography was an immediate sensation, a...
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American poet and biographer Carl Sandburg sketched a revealing portrait of himself in the preface to his Complete Poems (1950): "there was a puzzlement," he said, "as to whether I was a poet, a bio...
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Introduction
Sandburg was a poet, biographer, novelist, children's author, and folklorist who is often considered to have captured the essence of America in his works. He recorded and celebrate...
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Introduction
Sandburg was a poet, biographer, novelist, children's author, and folklorist who is often considered to have captured the essence of America in his works. He recorded and celebrate...
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Introduction
Sandburg was a poet, biographer, novelist, children's author, and folklorist who is often considered to have captured the essence of America in his works. He recorded and celebrate...
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Introduction
Sandburg was a poet, biographer, novelist, children's author, and folklorist who is often said to have captured the essence of America in his works. He recorded and celebrated the ...
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Introduction
Sandburg was a poet, biographer, novelist, children's author, and folklorist who is often said to have captured the essence of America in his works. He recorded and celebrated the ...
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Introduction
Sandburg was a poet, biographer, novelist, children's author, and folklorist who is often said to have captured the essence of America in his works. He recorded and celebrated the ...
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Introduction
Sandburg was a poet, biographer, novelist, children's author, and folklorist who is often said to have captured the essence of America in his works. He recorded and celebrated the ...
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Introduction
Sandburg was a poet, biographer, novelist, children's author, and folklorist who is often said to have captured the essence of America in his works. He recorded and celebrated the ...
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The Idealism of Sandburg
"Books are but empty nothings compared with living, pulsing men and women. Life is stranger and greater than anything ever written about it," proclaimed a 1907 advertisemen...
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Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) was an American poet, biographer, and journalist. He was famous for his free-verse style writing and his tall appearance. Carl, Charlie by the family, was the second of seven...
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In Carl Sandburg's poem, "Grass", the message of "Remembering the people that died for freedom" is distinctly portrayed. This poem is about people fighting and dying in wars for their independence an...
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In the poem "Grass," Carl Sandburg writes about the multiplicity of deaths associated with war. It shows that many innocent lives are taken because of war. Also, many soldiers die fighting for their c...
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